To mark the 1-year anniversary of the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles, reporter Noah Haggarty of the Los Angeles Times spoke to members of the community and those working to help in the aftermath of the fires to hear their perspectives.
Dr. Kari Nadeau from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and member of the LA Fire HEALTH Study consortium shared the following with Noah:
Nadeau: I think, 10 years from now, we’re going to look back and say, we really tested for as many exposures as we could in the air, water and soil, and then we looked at whether or not they affected short-term and long-term health outcomes. That will not only help L.A. and policymakers, but it’ll also be scalable to the rest of the world — because the human body is the human body.